About Rachel
Rachel Black is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with individuals facing relationship struggles, grief, addiction concerns, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Rachel offers steady, practical support and helps clients find clear next steps.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on understanding patterns that cause pain and testing small, doable changes. She uses talk, skills practice, and real-life experiments so clients can try new ways of coping between meetings.
Background and approach
Rachel draws on a mix of proven approaches, including attachment-based ideas that look at close relationships, cognitive behavioral strategies that change unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness practices to calm the body and mind. She also includes elements of dialectical behavior work and motivational interviewing when useful for motivation and emotion regulation.
Rachel’s background includes two decades of clinical work in Florida and she holds a Florida licensed mental health counselor credential. She frames progress as gradual and measurable, and she helps people set realistic goals for change. Sessions can address practical life needs such as sleep, eating, parenting stress, career shifts, and coping with chronic illness.
People typically find Rachel direct but warm. She aims to make therapy feel like a team effort, where clients leave with simple tools and a clear plan. The focus is on steady improvements that fit real life and daily routines.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior; it helps when trust, closeness, or abandonment fears cause distress. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behaviors. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice their thoughts and physical reactions without getting carried away, which can reduce rumination and improve sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, current struggles, and personal preferences, and together they will try techniques that fit the client's life. This collaborative process means methods can shift as needs change and as certain tools show results.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different days and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth, and text or chat is helpful for quick check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint is needed. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English